This article is from the archive of our partner. Millions of Harry Potter fans have grown up along with the books' characters, but as these kids matured and went through puberty and started sneaking kisses at teenage parties, Harry, Hermione, and Ron did not. The Harry Potter books--and the movies, for the most part--have been extremely chaste. Frustrated fans have had to make due with fan fiction, where they could imagine all the romantic couplings left off J.
Rupert Grint takes Ron Weasley's jealousy and passion to a new level.
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A t the end of "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban," hidden in an alcove in the far left corner of the Marauder's Map, are what many dedicated Potterheads have presumed to be two students hooking up, despite the adapted film's PG rating. For those unlearned in the magic of the Potter universe, the Marauder's Map shows the location of everyone within the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry with little footsteps. Usually, a glance at the map will simply show various pairs of footsteps walking or loitering, but given the position of these two specific pairs of feet and a half-second wiggle, it's easy to wonder if these two students are managing a bit of mischief. The potentially scandalous moment seen above occurs at the movie's end credits, which was sort of an unprecedentedly long and impressive sequence for its time. After following a long rabbit hole of people who worked on the varying aspects of visual effects for the movie and, more specifically, the Marauder's Map, The Huffington Post finally found Rus Wetherell, the man in charge of designing the sequence and those mysterious footsteps.
Video: Sexual Subtext and Forced Text in the "Harry Potter" Films
Harry Potter fans are abuzz this week with news that the final film installment, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," will likely include a dream sequence featuring Harry Daniel Radcliffe and Hermione Emma Watson in a "very sexy" nude scene. The film, slated for release in two parts -- the first opening in late -- includes "mature" content that director David Yates created exclusively for the big screen, while axing parts of author J. Rowling's original manuscript. Is it wrong to sex up a childhood icon like Harry Potter? Potter is just taking cues from the competition: Next to the perpetually shirtless Twilight vampires, Harry Potter looks "a little staid," says Stuart Heritage in Britain's Guardian. By showing a little skin, Harry is just trying to keep up with the competition. Let's just hope this doesn't set a precedent for other big-screen adaptations of children's books — nobody wants to see "the Very Hungry Caterpillar's nipples. Showing Harry Potter nude is just wrong: Fans may be intrigued by celebritites baring all, says Charlotte Martin in Britain's The Sun , "but there are some stars we never want to see in that way. Just yesterday Potter was a "wee lad waving his wand to cast spells" — it's far too soon to picture him waving his other "magic wand.
Enough with the seriousness. The piece about Spongebob is delightful and insane. And now that early reviews are calling the new movie "sexy," I've got my excuse. Parker's piece, titled "Sex and the Single Wizard," spends about only half its words talking about adolescence and relationships, and fails to mention the actual source of the problem: that J. Rowling, for all that she's created a compelling universe, is really awful at writing about adult sexual and romantic relationships. First, in Rowling's universe, everyone ends up with their first real love, and I mean everyone. The idealized relationship is, of course, Lily and James Potter, who fall for each other at Hogwarts. Ron Weasley's parents never seem to have dated anyone else. Harry ends up with Ginny, and Ron ends up with Hermoine. Even the folks who don't get together with their first loves never end up with anyone else.
